Started with a Daisy BB gun at around 5. Got first .22, a Stevens Crackshot 26 at 6, still have it. Got a 20 gauge single-shot shotgun at 7. It's still in the family. Pappy (Grandfather) "sporterized" a .303 Brit No.4 Mk1 for me at around 8. Started reloading for it at 11. Killed my first deer with it at 16. Still have it. I'm 60, so that makes 55 years shooting.

Bring enough gun and know how to use it.

Know that it is not the knowing, nor the talking, nor the reading man, but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. - Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)